Nietzsche as political philosopher

488 Pages·2014·2.479 MB·English

by  Knoll, Manuel;Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

NietzscheasPoliticalPhilosopher
Nietzsche Today
Volume 3
Nietzsche as
Political
Philosopher
Edited by
Manuel Knoll and Barry Stocker
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
ManuelKnollandBarryStocker
Introduction:Nietzscheaspoliticalphilosopher 1
I. The Variety of Approaches to Nietzsche’s Political Thought
RolfZimmermann
The“WilltoPower”:TowardsaNietzscheanSystematicsofMoral-Political
DivergenceinHistoryinLightofthe20thCentury 39
RebeccaBamford
TheLiberatoryLimitsofNietzsche’sColonialImaginationinDawn
206 59
NanditaBiswasMellamphy
Nietzsche’sPoliticalMaterialism:DiagramforaNietzscheanPolitics 77
II. Democratic, or Liberal, or Egalitarian Politics in Nietzsche
PaulPatton
NietzscheonPowerandDemocracycirca1876–1881 93
LawrenceJ.Hatab
Nietzsche’sWilltoPowerandPolitics 113
BarryStocker
AComparisonofFriedrichNietzscheandWilhelmvonHumboldtasProducts
ofClassicalLiberalism 135
DonovanMiyasaki
ANietzscheanCaseforIlliberalEgalitarianism 155
vi Contents
III. Aristocratic, or Anti-Liberal, or Non-Egalitarian Politics in
Nietzsche
RenatoCristi
Nietzsche,TheognisandAristocraticRadicalism 173
DonDombowsky
AristocraticRadicalismasaSpeciesofBonapartism:Preliminary
Elements 195
PhillipH.Roth
PoliticalandPsychologicalPrerequisitesforLegislationintheEarlyNietz-
sche 211
ManuelKnoll
The“Übermensch”asaSocialandPoliticalTask:AStudyintheContinuity
ofNietzsche’sPoliticalThought 239
IV. Ethics, Morality, and Politics in Nietzsche
KeithAnsell-Pearson
CareofSelfinDawn:OnNietzsche’sResistancetoBio-political
Modernity 269
DanielConway
“Wewhoaredifferent,weimmoralists…” 287
ChristianJ.Emden
PoliticalRealismNaturalized:NietzscheontheState,Morality,andHuman
Nature 313
TamsinShaw
The“LastMan”Problem:NietzscheandWeberonPoliticalAttitudesto
Suffering 345
V. Physiology, Genealogy, and Politics in Nietzsche
RazvanIoan
ThePoliticsofPhysiology 383
Contents vii
TomAngier
OntheGenealogyofNietzsche’sValues 405
EvangeliaSembou
Foucault’suseofNietzsche 431
NotesonContributors 449
NameIndex 455
SubjectIndex 465

Abbreviations
Primary sources from Nietzsche are cited in the main text by abbreviation ac-
cordingtothestandardconventionslistedhere.Nietzsche’sworksaretypically
cited by section number and, in the cases of EH, GM, and TI, an additional
reference to the chapter title or essay number (see below). References to Z in-
clude the part number and chapter title (often abbreviated), e.g., Z I Reading.
Prefacesofworksarereferencedbya“Preface”aftertheabbreviatedtitle,e.g.,
TIPreface.AllpassagesfromNietzsche’sNachlassarecitedfromKSAorKGW,
startingwiththeabbreviationNL,followedbyKSA/KGW,thevolumenumber,
themanuscriptnumber,andthenfragmentnumberinbrackets,e.g.,NL,KSA
7,5[103].InsomecasesthepagenumberofKSAwasadded.Nietzsche’sletters
are cited according to volume and letter number as they appear in KGB, e.g.,
KGBIII/1,Bf.213.
TheEnglishtranslationsofNietzsche’sworksusedinthearticlesarelisted
intherespectivebibliographies.
A TheAntichrist
AOM AssortedOpinionsandMaxims
BAW Historisch-kritischeGesamtausgabe:Werke(5vols.,editedbyJoachim
Mette)
BGE BeyondGoodandEvil
BT TheBirthofTragedyoutoftheSpiritofMusic[BTAttempt]
CW TheCaseofWagner
D Daybreak
DS DavidStrauss,theWriterandtheConfessor
DW TheDionysianWorldview
EH EcceHomo[EHWise,EHClever,EHBooks,EHDestiny]
FEI OntheFutureofOurEducationalInstitutions
GM OntheGenealogyofMorals(Citedbyessaynumberfollowedbysectionnum-
ber)
GS TheGayScience
GSt TheGreekState
HC Homer’sContest
HHI HumanAllTooHumanI
HL OntheUsesandDisadvantagesofHistoryforLife
KGB NietzschesBriefwechsel:.KritischeGesamtausgabe
KGW NietzscheWerke:KritischeGesamtausgabe
KSA SämtlicheWerke:KritischeStudienausgabe
NCW NietzschecontraWagner
NL Drafts,Fragments,andSketchesfromtheNachlass
PPP ThePre-PlatonicPhilosophers
PT OnthePathosofTruth
PTAG PhilosophyintheTragicAgeoftheGreeks
x Abbreviations
SE SchopenhauerasEducator
TI TwilightoftheIdols[TIArrows,TISocrates,TIReason,TIFable,TIMorality,
TIErrors,TIImproving,TIGermans,TISkirmishes,TIAncients,TIHammer]
TL OnTruthandLieinanExtra-MoralSense
TM DeTeognideMegarensi(=BAW3,pp.21–64)
WB RichardWagnerinBayreuth
WP TheWilltoPower
WPH WePhilologists
WS TheWandererandHisShadow
Z ThusSpokeZarathustra
[ZIAdder,ZIFlies,ZIGoals,ZIHinterworldly,ZIIdol,ZIMetamorphoses,ZIPrologue,ZI
Teachers,ZIVirtue,ZIWar,ZIWomen,ZIIHumanPrudence,ZIIIsles,ZIIPriests,ZIIOn
Self-Overcoming,ZIIRedemption,ZIIScholars,ZIITarantulas,ZIIIConvalescent,ZIIIRid-
dle,ZIIITablets,ZIIIGravity,ZIVBeggar,ZIVCryofDistress,ZIVMen]